First things first,
you need to go to Glen Hosey's site and download the latest version of
Buster. You can find it at: http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/caravaggio/146/

If you have MasterCook,
download the MC version, ditto MealMaster. Right now there is NO Mac version
available, but I believe Glen is working on it. Bookmark the site. Updates
are pretty frequent.

After you've downloaded
Buster, put it in a directory of it's own. I call my directory "Buster".
You might want to make a shortcut for it on your desktop. (If you don't
know how to create a directory or a shortcut, email me!) To make this as
basic aspossible you might want
to set your files up like mine are, that way you can follow right along
and perhaps it will make more sense. Directory: D:\Buster (don't worry
if you don't have a D drive. C is ok, too! This is where the program is
stored and where you'll store the recipes you want to bust.

Subdirectory: MC (this is
where I store already busted files till I want to import them)

Another thing you might
want to do is download a text editor. You probably have a word processing
program on your computer now. DON'T USE IT FOR THIS!! LOL A word processor
is really too much for this kind of thing. You need a simple text editor.
I was using Works 4.0 to edit and there were so many steps to saving a
recipe as a text file that I was wasting a lot of time.

You can find text editors
at: http://www.pcwin.com/software/prod/editors.aspI use NoteTab Pro. The
thing I like best about it is that it has a feature that will strip HTML
garbage from recipes you download from the Internet, making them a whole
lot easier to import. The freeware version, Super NoteTab Light 4.01, is
available at the site mentioned above. Even easier is Edit Pro, found on
the site too. I've downloaded and installed that, but haven't played with
it yet. It's also freeware.

That's it for the first
lesson. Next lesson the real learning begins!! If anyone has any questions,
EVER, please feel free to email privately.